Definition of "croqueted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of croquet. (verb)

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• "There are a number of small balls which must be croqueted into two deep holes, with the aid of long slender mallets."
• "Stop shot: A technique in which the croqueted ball is hit considerable distance and striker's ball barely moves."
• ""I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear one's self speak -- and they don't seem to have any rules in particular: at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive: for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!""